Paint-pail.



W. SHARROOK.

PAINT PAIL.

APPLICATION FILED Palms, 1914.

1,121,299, Patented De0.15,1914.

A TTOR NE Y.

WILLIAM SHARROCK, 015 BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAINT-PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed February 13, 1914. Serial No. 818,470.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIA SHARROCK, a British subject, and resident of Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paint-Pails, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

As well known, paint pails after use take on an internal lining or skin of dried paint so that if the pail is to be used for a paint of a diii'erent color it has been generally necessary to burn out the pail, a matter involving considerable time, close attention and expense. The burning process endangers the premises where it is carried out, and is prohibited by most insurance companics. Moreover, in the burning out of the old paint in the pail, there is liability of de stroying the receptacle.

In carrying out the object of this invention, I provide internally of the paint pail, and additional to the side walls of the pail proper, with a plurality of closely related convolutions of impervious sheet material,

the exposed one of which forms a protection for the remaining ones, enabling the user, as occasion may require, to remove the inner convolution or layer, leaving, then exposed, a fresh and clean layer of the ail lining for the manifest advantage. An incidental to the practice of this invention there is less adhesion of paint on the removable paint lining than there would be on the we ls of the ordinary pail.

The invention is described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view through a aint ail having the provisions of this invention. Fig. 2 is substantially a horizontal sectional view, as taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view on a smaller scale showing a portion of the sheet material which forms the pail lining convolutions.

In the drawings, A represents the pail having the bail or handle a as usual, and I) b convolutions of impervious sheet material, the surface of each being in face contact against that of the next, but unattached each to the next throughout almost their entire areas. The circular layers comprised in the convolutions are however secured each to the next by any suitable adhesive having fitness to the purpose, and along the narrow lines as represented at f in the drawings. The material forming the circular lining layers for the pail may advantageously be a hard paper treated to render it impervious to liquid, and the adhesive employed may be shellac. The said convolutions are preferably made with weakening lines, as indicated at g g in the drawings, such, for instance, being produced by a line of perforations or scorings.

The paint pail as represented in Fig. 1 is made with an inwardly extending flange It around its upper edge and up to which the lining layers I) extend; and said flange not only serves to prevent the displacement of the lining layers, but it also serves as a rib on which the paint brush may be wiped and prevents the entrance of paint between the lining layers. The number of convolutions or lining layers may be more or less,the inclusion from 6 to 12 for a pail being entirely practicable. After'use of the ail with a paint of one color or kind and it is desired to make use of the same pail for a paint of another color or kind, it is onl necessary to strip ofi the convolution whic had been exposed and on which a layer of skin or paint had accumulated, leaving the next convolution to form a fresh and clean exposed inner surface of the paint pail wall.

claim 1. A paint pail having'internally of, and

additional to the side walls of the pail proper, a plurality of closely related convolutions of impervious sheet material, the exposed one of which forms a protection for the remaining ones, and said convolutions being for the greater portions of their areas, unattached each to the next.

2. A paint pail having an inwardly extending flange around its upper edge and provided internally of, and additional to the side walls of the pail proper, with a plurality of closely related convolutions of impervious sheet material, unattached each to the next for the greater portions of their areas, extending from the pail bottom to the under side of said flange.

3. A paint pail having internally of, and additional to the side walls of the pail proper, a plurality of closely related convolutions of impervious sheet material which are unattached each to the next, throughout the greater portions of their areas, with means, however, for securing ing weakening lines extending from their 10 said lconvolutions one to another on small lower to their upper edges. fraet10nal parts only of their areas. Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in

4. ,A paint pail having internally of, and presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

additional to a plurality of closely related convolutions of impervious sheet material, WILLIAM SHARROOK' ancl means for securing said convolutions Witnesses:

one to another on small fractional parts, G. R. DRISCOLL,

only, of their areas,said convolutions hav- W. S. BELLOWS. 

